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drosson I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

I didn't notice this problem, but then I realized that as I'm using Brave browser ads might be blocked by default. So I tried in Chrome and still no ads. I'm using Jekyll for my blog so I wonder what's saving me from this issue.

Example:https://dalevross.rosssquared.org/blog/2013/08/16/pi-lovin.h...

If anyone is able to confirm that they're not seeing ads either, I would be grateful.

drosson An NPM package to show off recommendations

Oof! Well, I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles. Maybe this will blow over soon.

drosson An NPM package to show off recommendations

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drosson Managing my personal knowledge base

A little surprised that after 64 comments I've only seen 2 instances of Evernote mentioned. I recently went back to using it and have been making use of the clipper fairly often. https://twitter.com/dalevross/status/1214257684863692806 https://www.evernote.com/l/AVVHBrGz_9BPMbh_Oxgp8qpibzVtX0tRn...

I also found https://dabble.me/ the other day which seemed like a nice slot in for quick thoughts with the ability to email to your journal. I've heard that journaling manually works better but I really dislike writing unless necessary.

One of my biggest gripes is with how many places I have my data in currently, and as a dev, I should have done something already but that's another story.

I'll definitely have a look at Notion and org-mode having read the feedback here along with a few other mentions elsewhere.

drosson LSD – My Problem Child (1980) [pdf]

I don't know the dose and will ask, but your experience matches my only experience and I hadn't looked into it before. Everything resolved to one entity, which was almost nothingness at the same time. As a solipsist, the experience and events leading up to it, including the peers that appeared to be guides, remain with me today. This was something I read leading up to it, http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

This video, during the experience, now defined as my most manic episode, was ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYWOdtReCVw It's hard to define.

drosson Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch

I installed it on my personal laptop due to constant crashes with chrome that debug logging didn't help to solve. Brave suffered similarly so I stuck with Chrome. I do extension development so when I saw that they used the same store I was pleasantly surprised. I couldn't test my extension behaviour though, because the app it enhances was having issues.

I'll give it a go on the PC I'm using for work(family) until I upgrade. Free BAT!

drosson Advent of Code 2019

This is my first year. As I missed the start time I created an event to remind me and published it for anyone else who'd wish to subscribe. https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M203...

Looking forward to the fun, the stress and the eventual euphoria.